Anne’s travelogue

One rarely gets an opportunity to see the Masai at work except in a "Just for tourists" mock village, so I felt privileged to have even a few views of the stunning red and black cloaked shepherds and some young boys, not yet initiated into manhood.

One of the concerns of travel is the possibility of an accident or health crisis far from home and family. Here is a story of a random sampling of humanity making one stranger's survival their only priority, and I hope this story is a model of what would be offered to strangers everywhere.

Anne Beach has been a member since 1 June 2008 and goes by itchyfeet2844.

Currently in North Carolina, but wishes she were traveling..

I am a retired teacher and find renewal in travel, but my budget usually wrecks my aspirations, so (Can you hear me sigh?), I'm searching for outside the box ways to get me out of my little box in Raleigh, NC. I like my little Raleigh box, but when I travel I feel my finger on the pulse of the world, I am moved by the commonality of human experience, my heart beats faster, my mind is enlivened, and my soul is fed. In 2006 I went to Rome, Italy; Ethiopia and Kenya, but my obsession was only exa